Distilling apparatus.



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7 mi W Pf m APPLICATION FILED MAYB. 1905.

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WALTER H. BARTHOLOMEIV,

OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES E. HILL, TRUSTEE, OF MONTGOMERY, NEW YORK.

DISTILLING APPARATUS Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

Application filed May 8, 1905. Serial No. 259,362.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1,1/VALTER H. BARTHOLO- ME\V, of East Orange, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Distilling Apparatuses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for distilling water, more particularly to the construction of a condenser used in such apparatus for distilling water; and it consists of the hereinafter more fully described improvements in the construction of such a condenser whereby the condensation of the vapors is accomplished more rapidly and much more economically and the gases and vapors of volatile liquids that may be contained in the water are eliminated and the product of distillation is qualitatively and quantitatively improved and, which is most important, rendered palatable without requiring any further treatment.

The subject-matter of this application is shown and described as part of the apparatus set forth in my application for Letters Pat ent filed May 8, 1905, Serial No. 259,361, and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a condenser embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 a cross-sectional view of line 2 2 indicated in Fig. 1.

It comprises a comparatively long (high) cylindrical vessel 11 with a suit ably-enlarged flaring base 12 and with the concentricallysuperimposed jacket 9 air-tightly secured to the hull of the interior vessel 11 at 14. An inlet-pipe 15 is tapped into the jacket some distance above the bottom thereof and is connected to a pump or other source of supply of water.

In the base 12 of the condenser suitable apertures 29 are provided, preferably by ser rating the base thereof for the admission of air, and a filtering-screen 17 is set above the apertures to arrest all impurities and prevent their entry into the condenser. Some distance above the screen 17 and below where jacket 9 terminates a circular flange 18 is secured int eriorlyto the cylindrical vessel 1 1 and deflected upwardly, thus forming the bottom of the condensing-chamber proper. The upwardly-deflected flange produces an opening 19 into the condensing-chamber 21. Underneath the jacket 9 and above the flange 18 an outlet-pipe 27 is tapped in the hull of the con denser communicating with the interior of the condensing-chamber 21. Through this pipe the condensed liquid is withdrawn from the condenser. This pipe may be provided with a cock or may be connected to a con duit conveying the distillate wherever it is required.

Vaporconduit 4 enters the condenser some distance below the flange 18 and is tapered or terminated into a nozzle 22, set concentrically with the opening 19 and some distance below it. The vapors are admitted into the con(lensing-chamber 21 through the aperture 19 and being quite forcibly ejected from the nozzle 22, due to the expansive action of the vapor, produce a suction, drawing into the condensing-chamber the air percolating through the above-mentioned filtering-screen.

In the interior of the condensing-chamber 21 there are arranged one or more deflectors. These deflectors are hollow disks 23, secured in position approximately concentrically with the condenser by stay-bolts 28. Their object is to deflect the flow of the vapors toward. the hull of the condarising-chamber, (the interior vessel 11,) which is in contact with the cooling-water flowing through the jacket 9, and thereby to facilitate the con- (lensing of these vapors.

The upper end of the condenser terminates into a flue 2-1, surmounted by a cowl 25 and provided with apertures 26. The object of this arrangement in connection with the injection of the vapors into the bottom aperture 19 of the condensing-chamber 21 and the suction of air created thereby is to draw and drive ofl' all gases and vapors of volatile liquids that may be contained in the water and which enter the condenser with. the vapors of the water from the still. These vapors would otherwise condense and the gases be absorbed by the distilled water.

A flange (designated 31 in the drawings) may be aflixed to the shell 9 of the acket to support the condenser upon a frame to give it greater stability.

I claim as my invention 1. A condenser comprising a vessel, a flange set in the vessel some distance above its base, this flange forming a receptacle for the prodnot of condensation and a tapering inlet into the part of the vessel above the flange; inletports in the vessel below the flange and outlet-ports in the to thereof; a vapor-conduit entering the vesse below the flange and ter minating approximately midway of,-and concentrically with, the tapering inlet formed by the flange, and means for Withdrawing the product of condensation from the vessel, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. A condenser comprising a vessel, a flange set in the vessel some distance above its base, this flange forming a receptacle for the prodnot of condensation and a tapering inlet into the part of the vessel above the flange; inletports in the vessel below the flange and outlet-ports in the top thereof; a foraminous element, set above the inlet-ports; a vapor-con duit entering the vessel below the flange and terminating approximately midway of, and concentrically with, the tapering inlet formed by the flange, and means for Withdrawing the product of condensation from the vessel,

substantially as herein shown and described.

3. A condenser comprising a vessel, a flange set in the vessel some dlstance above its base,

this flange forming a receptacle for the prodformed by the flange, and means for withdrawing the product of condensation from the vessel, substantially as herein shown and described.

WALTER H. BAR-THOLOMEW. Witnesses:

M. A. HELMKE, M. M. CURRY. 

